In recent trading session, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) saw 29.58 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.64. Company’s recent per share price level of $9.62 trading at -$1.84 or -16.01% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $8.32B. That most recent trading price of WBA’s stock is at a discount of -146.99% from its 52-week high price of $23.76 and is indicating a premium of 16.01% from its 52-week low price of $8.08. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 25.19 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 24.24 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 2.85. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 11 analysts covering the stock, 1 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 6 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 4 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.52 in the current quarter.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -16.01%, in the last five days WBA remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 01/27/25 when the stock touched $9.62 price level, adding 20.69% to its value on the day. Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc’s shares saw a change of 3.16% in year-to-date performance and have moved -18.91% in past 5-day. Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) showed a performance of 3.94% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 96.53 million shares which calculate 3.78 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 10 to the stock, which implies a rise of 3.8% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 9 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 12. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 6.44% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 6.44% for stock’s current value.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) estimates and forecasts
Statistics highlight that Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc is scoring comparatively lower than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company lost -18.91% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of -44.44% while that of industry is -38.90. Apart from that, the company came lowering its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2025. This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 2.87% from the last financial year’s standing.
9 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 37.94B for the same. And 9 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 36.96B in the next quarter. Company posted 37.05B and 36.35B of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -44.11% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of -16.60%.
WBA Dividends
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report in February and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 10.39%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.00 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 6.14%.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 17.49% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 61.79 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 74.89%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 61.79% institutions for Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at WBA for having 82.21 million shares of worth $994.3 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 9.5247 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 70.01 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 8.1114 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $846.76 million.
On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Sep 30, 2024, the former fund manager was holding 21.86 shares of worth $212.11 million or 2.53% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 18.77 shares on Sep 30, 2024, making its stake of worth around $182.12 million in the company or a holder of 2.17% of company’s stock.